On Friday Channel 9 icon Eddie McGuire announced the AFL Footy Show was being replaced and now further details have emerged about what the future may look like for the network’s new football program.

According to a report by the Herald Sun, former Carlton and Brisbane star Brendan Fevola will be the only existing Footy Show panellist to be given a regular gig on the replacement show.

It’s reported personalities like Billy Brownless and Chris Judd will remain with Channel 9 and appear on other football programs during the week but won’t feature in the reconstructed concept that is still expected to air midweek during prime time.

The Footy Show endured a tough slog in the TV ratings this year and was regularly beaten by Channel 7 rival The Front Bar. Eddie McGuire hosted the show but announced on his Triple M breakfast radio show the program was going to be knocked down and rebuilt from scratch.

McGuire confirmed long-time colleague Sam Newman — who announced this year he was leaving the Footy Show — will return in 2019 in a reduced capacity on the new version of the iconic program. Both McGuire and Newman will reportedly feature sporadically next season.

Dane Swan (middle) and Chris Judd (right) reportedly won’t be part of the new offering.Source:Supplied

“We’re going to have a completely new format next year,” McGuire said on The Hot Breakfast. “We’re going to have an expanded Footy Show format.

“It will be a completely new take on what footy shows need to be going forward.”

He told Nine’s Today he will only host a series of Footy Show “specials” throughout the year, but will leave weekly hosting duties to a new team.

He said the decision was made because of Nine’s busy 2019 sporting calendar, where the network will carry the 2019 Ashes series in England and the 2019 Cricket World Cup in England — all during prime time.

Those commitments have cut into the regular running time of the Thursday night AFL show — prompting changes.

“We will then have another show that will be on a Wednesday or Thursday night, depending what is happening in the football world,” McGuire said, of the shows he won’t be involved with.

“That will be a new show. New hosts, new people. Sam may be going in between both of them. But I won’t be hosting that show, but I will be hosting the specials.

“Then Sam, of course, will also be involved in the extended Sunday Footy Show on the Sunday morning with some of his great head-to-head interviews and that type of thing.”

McGuire said the specials he will host will be “extravagant” events in-line with big-budget AFL Grand Final Footy Show episodes.

The Footy Show as we know it is over.Source:Supplied

He also confirmed Newman has signed a new multi-year deal with Nine — just a few months after the veteran TV star staged a bizarre farewell from the show, declaring he would only be returning if Channel 9 wanted him back.

“Sam Newman and myself will host a number of footy show specials,” McGuire said. “I’m so excited. We’re going to have a lot of fun.

“I won’t be hosting the shows throughout the footy season.”

It comes just two months after the NRL Footy Show was also dramatically axed following a year of disastrous ratings under its new revised format — airing after Thursday night NRL matches.